A set of Utagaruta (Poem Cards)Edo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe set of 196 cards for the Hyakunin isshu card game decorated in ink, colors and gold leaf on paper with the various poets on one half of the set and their associated poems on the other, the cards held in brocade wrappers, the accompanying lacquer box with an overhanging cover decorated on the exterior with a landscape with rice fields before distant mountains in gold hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and togidashi maki-e with gold foil and kirikane on a roiro-nuri ground, the interior mura-nashiji, the edges fundame 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 5 3/8in (12 x 16.5 x 13.5cm)